Dear Readers,

This is my final post on this platform, after more than 20 years. I've been unable to export the images along with the writing, though I have copies of all of them archived at home. The continuation of this blog will reside at a self-hosted site, in addition to Substack. If you have been coming here directly or using a feed reader, please sit tight: in a few days, the same URL (http://www.cassandrapages.com) will point to the new site.

If you wish to follow me on Substack, the exact same content will be posted there each time I write a post. Please click on the embedded link in the previous sentence, or use this URL: https://cassandrapages.substack.com/

I'm appreciative of this home for my blog over the years, although I think that Typepad has been irresponsible in the ways it has failed to support its users, and the very short notice it gave for the final demise of the platform. I have, for example, followed the procedures Typepad laid out for exporting images, and they haven't even acknowledged my request for a help ticket. Be that as it may, I am responsible for failing to move the blog earlier, when things started to become shaky around here.

I'm witnessing the impending disappearance of my many years of thoughtful, careful work here with sadness, but also realism: nothing lasts forever, and certainly not in the rapidly-changing digital world that we live in. It feels rather like watching an advancing wildfire bearing down on my studio. Even though I have copies of everything, and have been able to reconstruct the writing from this blog as well as all the posts from the past two years that have been published on Substack, it definitely feels like a loss because I am unlikely to reconstruct the entire blog online ever again. Many people look back through old posts, or arrive here using various searches, and all of those links will now be broken. I myself often use search my own blog, looking for a record of some event in my life, a particular photograph, or some remembered lines of text. Now, I'll probably be using AI on my own archive to do that -- a weird thought at best.

To my faithful readers over the years: I can't thank you enough. I hope you will follow me to the Cassandra Pages's new home or to Substack, and I promise you that I'll continue to try to post the same kind of content that has given this site its particular ambience and feeling over the years.

warmly,

Beth